ToddsterPatriot, public assistance, Social Security retirement and other pensions, unemployment and disability insurance, and public assistance, are all among the benefits included within family incomes. Wages, dividends, interest, royalties, capital gains are among the income sources within family incomes.
CBO’s reported increases of family incomes due to increases of the minimum wage rate fully reflect replacements of other benefits and incomes with net increases of wage incomes for reduced social welfare benefits and other incomes contributing to families’ incomes.
CBO projections for families’ less than three times the poverty thresholds for their families’ sizes, due to the minimum wage rate having been gradually increased to reach $15 per hour in 2025, experience purchasing power increases ranging from only 5.2% to 3.4%.
That implies that those families wage income increases due to the minimum rate increasing substantially more than a range of 5.2% to 3.4%. Wage incomes are effectively almost the entire income sources of the working poor. Within most, if not all state’s, extremely little social welfare benefits are granted to their working-poor and working-poor dependents.
Eliminating USA’s minimum wage rate laws would be net detrimental to USA’s working-poor earning within the lowest-wage brackets of our jobs’ wage rates. For those employees and their dependents, the minimum rate effects upon their jobs’ rates range from critical to substantial. Respectfully, Supposn